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assailant

noun as in attacker

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The assailant, a 34-year-old male with a history of mental illness, later testified to police that he had stabbed the woman — whom he did not know — because he had been shunned by women in the past.

I can't agree to disagree with a side that's fine with a sexual assailant in the Oval Office.

From Salon

But with Trump, it makes a sick sort of sense, beyond even his history as a serial sexual assailant.

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The victim’s screams ultimately saved him, as a bystander stepped in, subdued the attacker and held him at bay for the remaining three hours until the assailant was arrested upon landing, the agent alleged.

The GOP nominated a candidate who ushered in abortion bans and is, by his own account and in a court of law, a sexual assailant.

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